I've been preaching for a $1/gallon tax for years and get road repairs totally off the budget It's what they do in several?? European cities, let the people who use the roads and not grandma pay for road maintenance. Of course in this scenario grandma will still end up paying for the roads as the cost of all goods and services that are transported via the roads will increase and that cost will be passed onto the end consumer(and thats fair) but all in all nondrivers (or low mileage drivers) should end up paying less.Do I believe this will get traction? HELL NO! it will never happen BTW I'd don't really consider 25c/gallon a "hike" but they like to whip it up like it is. Heck gas prices have risen in my market 50c+/gallon in the last couple months and people aren't flocking to the streets, they shouldn't even notice 25c

jjeff wrote:Of course in this scenario grandma will still end up paying for the roads as the cost of all goods and services that are transported via the roads will increase and that cost will be passed onto the end consumer(and thats fair) but all in all nondrivers (or low mileage drivers) D

Actually gas tax can be completely written off by business in most cases so it’s affect on prices is less than you might think.

Further if it can’t, it will drive specific types of business and transportation as being less favorable and cheap slow transport will become more favorable (like trains)

This will hurt places like Amazon and people who want fast tax payer subsidized semi shipments, but bulk deliveries will remain cost neutral.

This would force companies to move away from very wasteful shipping practices and charge people a realistic price if they want everything delivered to them, without planning a weekly shipping trip.

Local goods also become more price competitive, which is as it should be anyway.

As for my true opinion I have always believed the supply side of crude needs to pay a “windfall tax” whenever it’s price drops below a certain point and the tax should come and go with price, structured properly it would reduce market fluctuations and also drive some “hidden” tax from the very large tax except industrial side of crude.

Which is really what’s needed, even a very small supply side tax would provide vastly more energy revenue to roads than even a very large road tax hike and it might wake certain industries up into becoming more efficient to avoid the cost.Industry makes most of the pollution and making them more efficient would effect pollution much more than any pollution controls on road going cars, this is simply due to sheer volume of supply side use and pollution

Everyone does. But this is the norm elsewhere and it works. It's also where it should be based on infrastructure cost. Goods become more expensive when freighted in like everything now. Congestion charges would be welcome in the city centres for vehicles that are too inefficient.

It would personally effect me quite a bit. I travel a lot and have lots of non BEV vehicles. But it's the right thing to do.